Word: kulaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombs which killed Tsarist officials; dynamited safes and robbed trains to get funds for the Communist Party (valuables thus obtained being disposed of in part through Fence Litvinoff); and later as Dictator occasioning the deaths of thousands of Russians by his drastically obeyed order to "liquidate the kulak as a class." Let not Reader Ober rob the Dictator of terroristic laurels sweet to an Old Bolshevik whose proudest boasts are always about the number of years he spent in jail for crimes committed in Tsar Nicholas' reign.-ED. Sovereigns to Left Sirs: I note in your issue...
Promptly easy-going Trophim Morosov was expelled from the Communist Party, banished from Sverdlovsk Province. Not long after, a number of Kulak boys including Pavel's cousin met Pavel in the village street. They left him beaten, severely discolored. The village policeman refused to act until Pavel brought documentary proof of the assault and the nature of his injuries. Sticks & stones might break the bones of Pavel but they could not change the stalwart Communist principles of Pavel and little Fedor. They went on with the good work of peaching on Kulaks...
...march past his corpse. The struggle between Trotsky and Stalin for supremacy began. It raged for four years, during which time numerous features of the NEP were modified and Soviet life became less Capitalistic, more Socialistic. In line with this trend Trotsky & Friends demanded the wiping out of the kulak or rich peasant. Stalin called their doctrines a "Left Heresy." He secured their expulsion from the Communistic Party in December 1927-then, as the new year opened Stalin proceeded to adopt Trotsky's heresy as his policy, moved ruthlessly to "liquidate the kulak as a class...
Josef Stalin, who historically ordered "We must liquidate the kulak [rich peasant] as a class!" has never ordered the liquidation of Moscow housewives as a class-but this liquidation has been going...
Paramount fact: more than two thirds of the whole sown area of the Soviet Union is not only not in the hands of kulak households, but it is not even in the hands of poor peasant households. This vast and vital two thirds now consists of: 1) State farms or 2) collective farms worked cooperatively by groups of peasants under State supervision...